maiden, clothes-horse or something else?

Racks are great. I wish I had one here.
I definitely dislike and loathe rotary dryers. The cords are very thin and leave lines on the clothes wheras rope clothes lines are thicker.

We call ours ‘Auntie Connie’s airers’ after the kindly lady who donated us two hinged, wooden clothes horses when she bought new plastic replacements. We thought we had the best of the bargain. I painted one and varnished the other and repair them when the cloth hinges wear through and they have been in continuous use for twenty years now.

From my childhood I remember a wooden clothes horse that my father made. He made many lovely wooden tables, chairs, and small furniture items. That same clothes horse still stands in my mother's airing cupboard and I use it to keep my towels on when I stay with her.

PS It looked exactly like the one in GranTante's picture so perhaps he didn't make it! Either way, it has survived nearly 70 years.

It was definitely a maiden here in Macclesfield !

My family called the one we pulled up to the ceiling a creel. No idea how it was spelled. The one with its feet on the ground was a clothes horse.

I grew up in West Yorkshire. We had a a clothes horse. The pulley thing was a creel or clothes went out on't line. My auntie had a Winter 'edge. I didn't realise it should be hedge! I don't like housework but strangely I love hanging out washing .
My friend's mum used to loop her sheets on the line and one day we thought it was a good idea to climb inside them. They fell in the mud and we were in big trouble!

Maden in Lancashire x

Black Country - clothes horse

Yep, Black Country, 'the 'Orse'.

After my Darling Mum died when I was 10, I was in charge of the laundry (which I loved). When I was, 16 my lovely Dad got me a large sideways expanding white plastic airer, with his Embassy coupons, bless him.

I use the wonderful airer to this day (some 50 years later). Every time I use it, I think of my beloved Dad, with so much love. It is still a fab piece of kit, even if the plastic has cracked off the metal frame in some places!

N/E Midlands and we called it the clothes horse. Also served as a tent with an old bedsheet thrown over it! Happy days ?

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Until 18 months ago lived in the West Midlands always a clothes horse and my aunt's had wooden racks on pulley suspended from the ceiling. I still call it a clothes horse and made my grandson a clothes horse den. My daughter always calls them airers . It's like different parts of the country have different names for a a lot of things. It was a cob in Midlands but bap , barm or roll or in others. But to me a roll was oblong not round. In the Midlands we never put butter on bacon sandwiches but other parts of the country do. Never understood the double fat. There's an old saying 'there's nout so queer as folk.' Just means we are all different which makes life interesting.